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weather. This is called, I believe, comparative advantage – I say, MMSU or not, let’s start taking advantage of it!
Consider also that sugarcane is preferred as feedstock by Brazil and, naturally, the sugarcane farmers in the
Philippines. Sweet sorghum does 2 better than sugarcane; one, you can have 2 crops a year while with sugarcane
you can only have 1 crop; two, you can grow sweet sorghum in soils where sugarcane will not. This is double
comparative advantage, if ever I saw one.
The Dryland Institute is another good start. I hope the management will be ICRISATIC, not bureaucratic. By ICRISATIC
I mean run like ICRISAT is run, as a team. I hope the Dryland Institute will find a team captain like William Dar.
I also hope that, like ICRISAT, the Dryland Institute will actively seek partnerships with the private sector as well as
local governments.
As to our legislators, only (new) Senator Migz
Zubiri seems interested in biofuels; other
Senators are more interested in fueling the
ire of the people against indigence and
helplessness, blaming it all on GMA. Only they
know how one woman (or man, for that matter)
can cause the poverty and misery of a country
all by herself (or himself) – and I’m not about
to ask them.
(4) Waiver of visa requirements for holders of
diplomatic passports and official passports,
liberalized visa policy for Indian nationals.
What are friends for?
Even Harry Potter learned, as his beloved
Professor Albus Dumbledore told him in Harry
Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (2005,
Scholastic), ‘You need your friends, Harry.’ But
if you say you love the Philippines and badmouth
her to the world every time you send an email with attachment or open your big mouth, who needs friends?
During GMA’s visit to India, there was also the Ispat Industries Ltd’s plan for a $1.6 billion investment for an
integrated steel mill in Southern Philippines, which Ispat Managing Director Vinod Mittal reported to GMA in a
courtesy call at the Taj Majal Hotel in Mumbai. Ispat already owns a $225 million steel mill in Iligan City.
GMA also convinced Bollywood (India’s Hollywood) filmmakers to consider the thousands of islands called the
Philippines as an alternative site for producing films. Bollywood is the largest film industry in the world, producing
GMA’s Indian Summer